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July 25, 2019

RC-Lemans Series Rd4 – Report

The AMC Hildesheim track near Hanover in the Northern part of Germany played host to round 4 of this year’s RC-Lemans Series last weekend. The weather was good all weekend except from a quite heavy rain shower on Saturday evening. The fast LMP1 class saw local hero and point standings leader Timo Schad leading the way in the qualifiers where he made a clean sweep to take the pole position for the triple A-mains from Tobias Weist on the 2 spot. Joachim Behnken, Reinder Wilms and Josip Bogdanovic followed behind while the swift Altmann duo of Kai and Tim were absent at round 4.

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July 23, 2019

Branislav Panak wins at Timar Laszlo Memorial Race

The Timar Laszlo Memorial Race was held at the Morac-Ring track near Graz in Austria recently. The weekend kicked off with free practice on Friday with qualifying starting on Saturday noon with both days being affected by the weather. Xray’s Branislav Panak would lead qualifying in the damp and he also led the dry main final from tone to tone to take the win on Saturday some two laps in front of Anton Sloboda (Xray) while Filip Uher (Xray) came in 3rd another three laps down.

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July 23, 2019

Nacho Lopez takes Spanish 1/8th IC Track title

Round 3 of the Spanish IC Track Nationals was held in Valladolid this past weekend. In the 1/8th IC Track category Victor Gonzalez took the overall TQ some three seconds in front of Nacho Lopez as Ruben Olivares came in 3rd after the qualifiers. The 45-minute main final than had Nacho coming out on top, a lap in front of Ruben was Victor had to settle for 3rd overall, another lap down. With the win, Nacho also took home the national title.

Image: Nacho Lopez

July 23, 2019

DJ Apolaro TQs & wins at IFMAR GT Worlds warm-up race

The IFMAR GT Pre-Worlds race was held in Homestead, Florida last week with IGT8’s DJ Apolaro walking away with the overall TQ and win in the ROAR 5-Port Spec class. The hour-long A-main final saw Paolo Morganti (IGT8) coming in 2nd, a close 2.3 seconds behind DJ as Super Pole winner, IGT8’s Lazaro Alonso ended the race in 3rd, only nine seconds behind the winner. Serpent’s Joaquin Desoto Jr. came in 4th, some three laps behind the top 3 as Fabrizio Martello (IGT8) completed the top 5 results another three laps down.

Source: IGT8 [igt8.com]

July 22, 2019

Wang & Tyler win at Sven Böhringer Family Reunion

Timezone Raceway of Battle Ground, Washington played host to the annual Sven Böhringer Family Reunion race, attracting over 150 entries in the six cases of 1/8th Masters, 1/8th Open, GT8, 1/10th 200mm Nitro, Touring Modified and Touring 17.5T Stock. In Touring Modified, drawing nearly 30 entries, it was Xray‘s JJ Wang with the overall TQ some 0.019s in front of Xray teammate, Korey Harbke. After the triple A-main events it was still JJ on top, thanks to winning A2 and A3 for the overall as Korey had to settle for 2nd with 1-2-5 finishes. 8th place qualifier, Yokomo‘s Randy Caster came in 3rd to round out the podium.

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July 21, 2019

Naoto Matsukura takes JMRCA S-EX Touring title

The All-Japan Electric Touring Nationals were held in Suwa, Nagano this past weekend. In the premier S-EX Modified class it was Infinity’s Naoto Matsukura with the overall TQ and he also came out on top in the opening two A-mains to take the overall title with the final A-main to spare. Yokomo’s Hayato Ishioka came in 2nd while Infinity’s Akio Sobue rounded out the top 3 podium result.

Source: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]

July 19, 2019

Xray Racing Series Alpe Adria Rd3 – Report

The third and final round of this year’s Xray Racing Series Alpe Adria was held at the Fener track in Italy. The finale attracted familiar and new faces with a couple of 1/5th scale regulars attending in the 1/8th class – making for some competitive racing. In the end it was local hero Mattia Collavo with the overall TQ in the premier 1/8th IC Track class, in front of large scale European champion B.A. Arnaldi and 1/8 EC-B finalist Nejc Mihelic. The 1/8 GT pole sitter was Luciano Bordin in front of Antonio Pucci and Michele Finato while in Super Touring. In Electric Touring Stock it was Luca Guerra on pole in front of Kristjan Miklozic and Edoardo Spongia. The 1/10th Formula class was lead by Cristiano Sartor from Luca Girotto and Stefano Poloniato and finally in the Super Touring category the pole sitter was the Genius racing boss Noacco Zeno in front of Matteo Sartor and Alessandro Pasa.

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July 18, 2019

Bowie Ginting wins Indonesian EP Onroad Nats Rd2

The second round of Indonesian EP Onroad National was held at Sunter International Speedway in Jakarta, with Touring Modified being the primary class. It was the current standings leader, Christian Mamesah who took the overall TQ spot ahead of Bowie Ginting and Suwardi Suliandy. However the main finals went into Bowie Ginting’s favour who secured the overall victory by winning A2 and A3, followed by pole sitter Christian Mamesah in 2nd and Ronny Suwarto in 3rd.

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